Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Nassim Nicholas Taleb quotes, Nassim Nicholas Taleb sayings, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates!Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Light control works; close control leads to overreaction, sometimes causing the machinery to break into pieces.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification it is like medieval medicine.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them, nerdiness the reverse.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious. Charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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For life to be really fun, what you fear should line up with what you desire.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imaginationNassim Nicholas Taleb
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What I learned on my own I still remember.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.. it is about the distortions of symmetry and reciprocity in life: if you have the rewards, you must also get some of the risks— not let others pay the price of your mistakes. If you inflict risk onto others and they are harmed, you need to pay some price for it.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.Nassim Nicholas Taleb